..Further, it remains unclear whether efficacy of the Internet therapy programs examined is comparable to usual treatment, since only two studies compare Internet therapy with face-to-face treatment...

Automatic brain response to facial emotion as a function of implicitly and explicitly measured extraversion

..In all, we describe a cerebral network involved in semantic processing and demonstrate that it is significantly affected by gender and sex steroid hormones...

Grief after termination of pregnancy due to fetal malformation

A KerstingDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, GermanyJ Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 25:163-9. 2004

..This paper presents three cases illustrating the trauma and coping mechanisms. Grieving continued for over 6 months in all cases and included pathological anxiety and depression. We offer advice and counselling to such women...

Trauma and grief 2-7 years after termination of pregnancy because of fetal anomalies--a pilot study

A KerstingDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, GermanyJ Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 26:9-14. 2005

..The results indicate that termination of pregnancy is to be seen as an emotionally traumatic major life event which leads to severe posttraumatic stress response and intense grief reactions that are still detectable some years later...

Maternal posttraumatic stress response after the birth of a very low-birth-weight infant

..Psychotherapeutic approaches are established as a three-stage model: stabilisation, trauma reorientation, and psychosocial reintegration. The additional use of psychotropic drugs should be oriented to the specific symptomatology...

Neuroimaging differences in spatial cognition between men and male-to-female transsexuals before and during hormone therapy

..This could reflect a different speed of normalization in prefrontal and limbic cortices, persistent systematic changes in neuronal networks after an episode of MDD, or a compensatory mechanism to maintain working-memory performance...

Reduced amygdala-prefrontal coupling in major depression: association with MAOA genotype and illness severity

..In this study, a face-in-the-crowd task was applied to examine the spatial detection of facial emotion as a function of depression and comorbid anxiety in the course of a psychotherapeutic inpatient treatment...

Deployment of attention in clinical depression during symptom remission

..First empirical results show that the presented treatment concept led to significant improvements in the symptoms, whose stabilization continued up to the follow-up two years after the start of therapy...

Neural activation underlying acute grief in women after the loss of an unborn child

..The short-term emotional reactions to TOP in late pregnancy due to fetal anomaly appear to be more intense than those to preterm birth. Both events can lead to severe psychiatric morbidity with a lasting psychological impact...

Unimpaired automatic processing of verbal information in the course of clinical depression

Udo DannlowskiDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Munster, Munster, GermanyDepress Anxiety 23:325-30. 2006

..Size of priming was not associated with depression severity, anxiety level, intelligence, medication, or clinical features. We conclude that depression is not characterized by dysfunctional automatic processing of verbal information...

..Contrary to former investigations the therapeutic factor "cohesion" was less important, which could hint at the fact that a medium amount of cohesion might be sufficient for an effective process of treatment...